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Life Is a Dream

1987 100 min French
Wubly rating 7.0 IMDb rating 7.0

A baroque mix of revolutionary politics, pop culture and semiotics loosely based on the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. A young prince learns that life is just a dream from which we wake when we die. And that dreams may be as real as life.

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Raúl Ruiz Director · Pedro Calderón de la Barca Writer

First release December 1, 1986 · Produced in France · Original title Mémoire des apparences

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France

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Original title

Mémoire des apparences

Original language

French

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French

Release dates

France · December 1, 1986

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No release date listed for United States.

Canada

September 15, 1987 · Theatrical

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